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Speaking of indoctrination…

Don’t ya just love all this “indoctrination” talk stirred up because—gasp!—the President seeks to directly engage schoolchildren?

Let us focus on some legitimate indoctrination:

“By the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that one in five schools participating in the National School Lunch Program had brand-name fast foods in their lunchrooms.”
—School Lunch Politics by Susan Levine

I’m just saying that the State as an entity does all sorts of unsavory things. Yet folks feel perfectly fine trusting that same entity to teach ( if not raise) their kids, dole out health care, and tell them what to eat.

I’m perfectly fine with parental involvement, my wife is a teacher, that’s local. I’m not fine with top down, one sized fits all regulation from out of touch bureaucrats 1000 miles away. That rule guides my thinking on just about everything, whether it’s food, agriculture, or my five year old’s kindergarten class.

A question, oklavore related, why do we look to answers on how to ‘remake the food system’ from those disconnected bureacrats? Especially when they’re the ones who caused the problem in the first place…

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"The path to a diet of fresher, unprocessed food, not to mention a revitalized local-food economy, passes straight through the home kitchen."
—Michael Pollan, "Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch," NYT Magazine, July 29, 2009

“Food offers us many opportunities to resist the culture of mass marketing and commodification. … We can merge appetite with activism and choose to involve ourselves in food as co-creators.”
—Sandor Ellix Katz, Wild Fermentation